The Latest Insanity from the Christianist Republic of Tejasistan
From the folks at CREDO action: Should public education be guided by a "biblical litmus test"?
Times like these, we really miss Mollie Ivins.
The Houston Chronicle reports Gov. Rick Perry is seriously considering nominating Cynthia Dunbar to lead the State Board of Education.
According to the Houston Chronicle:
In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country's founding fathers created "an emphatically Christian government" and that government should be guided by a "biblical litmus test." She endorses a belief system that requires "any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern."
Also in the book, she calls public education a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion."
The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even "tyrannical," she wrote, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.
We don't use the phrase "rightwing nut job" lightly. Gov. Perry has gone too far.
There's an online petition but if one is not already registered with the web site, it wants contact full info.
*sigh* Just more blatant pandering to the far-rightwing "base" that has made Texas' Republican party particularly onerous as he prepares to battle Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchison in the 2010 primary. Rumors are running that the Dems will have a contested primary which should make the normally insane open primaries worth watching.
12 votes in an Irving district kept things from a 75-75 split in the Texas House, things could get interesting now that the we're safe from the Legislature being in session.
Times like these, we really miss Mollie Ivins.
The Houston Chronicle reports Gov. Rick Perry is seriously considering nominating Cynthia Dunbar to lead the State Board of Education.
According to the Houston Chronicle:
In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country's founding fathers created "an emphatically Christian government" and that government should be guided by a "biblical litmus test." She endorses a belief system that requires "any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern."
Also in the book, she calls public education a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion."
The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even "tyrannical," she wrote, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.
We don't use the phrase "rightwing nut job" lightly. Gov. Perry has gone too far.
There's an online petition but if one is not already registered with the web site, it wants contact full info.
*sigh* Just more blatant pandering to the far-rightwing "base" that has made Texas' Republican party particularly onerous as he prepares to battle Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchison in the 2010 primary. Rumors are running that the Dems will have a contested primary which should make the normally insane open primaries worth watching.
12 votes in an Irving district kept things from a 75-75 split in the Texas House, things could get interesting now that the we're safe from the Legislature being in session.